Brian Cantor

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford and a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST) at Brunel University.  He is also a chief editor of the new Springer-Nature journal High Entropy Alloys & Materials.  He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and of Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA, and worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern University, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute.  He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, and Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park.  He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and chief editor of Progress in Materials Science.  He invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys.  He has been awarded many scientific prizes and honorary doctorates and professorships in the UK, USA, China and India.  In 1998 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) as “a world authority on materials and manufacturing”; in 2013 he was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) by the Queen for “services to higher education”; and last year he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS).